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BUSI5A815: East Asian Business and Management

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Type Open
Level 4
Credits 15
Availability Available in 2024/2025
Module Cap
Location Durham
Department Management and Marketing

Prerequisites

  • None

Corequisites

  • None.

Excluded Combinations of Modules

  • None.

Aims

  • To enable students to engage different East Asian business systems in a critically informed way which identifies emerging trends and specialised management issues.

Content

  • Comparative business systems
  • East Asian regional economic and business governance
  • East Asia economic miracle, crisis and recovery
  • Japanese business and management
  • South Korean business and management
  • Offshore Chinese business networks
  • Mainland China I: economic reform
  • Mainland China II: emerging business and management
  • East-West organisational and management learning and development
  • East-West business champions and pathfinder development

Learning Outcomes

Subject-specific Knowledge:

  • Have a critical appreciation of East Asian regional economic and business dynamics;
  • Have an advanced understanding of leading national (Japanese, South Korean, Chinese) business systems.

Subject-specific Skills:

  • Be able to compare and critically evaluate key East Asian business organisational and management preferences;
  • Be able to anticipate/predict future developmental trends and issues;
  • Be able to engage with problems and opportunities for developing East/West business relationships.

Key Skills:

  • Written communication; planning, organising and time management; problem solving and analysis; using initiative; computer literacy.

Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

  • Learning outcomes will be met through a combination of lectures, seminars and guided reading.
  • The assessment of the module, by written assignment, is designed to test students' knowledge and understanding of the subject-matter and their ability to apply it to the analysis of specific issues.

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

ActivityNumberFrequencyDurationTotalMonitored
Lectures101 per week2 hours20 
Seminars41 per fortnight1 hour4Yes
Preparation, Reading, Data Collection and Independent Study126 
Total150 

Summative Assessment

Component: AssignmentComponent Weighting: 100%
ElementLength / DurationElement WeightingResit Opportunity
Written assignment2,500 words maximum100Same

Formative Assessment

Four multiple choice tests delivered via Learn Ultra.

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